וַיַּצֵּ֣ל דָּוִ֔ד אֵ֛ת כָּל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לָקְח֖וּ עֲמָלֵ֑ק וְאֶת שְׁתֵּ֥י נָשָׁ֖יו הִצִּ֥יל דָּוִֽד
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Samuel 30:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Samuel 30:18 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And David rescued all that Amalek had taken, and David rescued the two of his wives.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken: and David rescued his two wives.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had taken: also Dauid rescued his two wiues.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives hath David delivered.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And David delivers all that the Amalekites have taken; David has also delivered his two wives.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And David rescued all that Amalek had taken, and David rescued the two of his wives.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken: and David recovered his two wives.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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עֲמָלֵ֑ק
ʻĂmâlêq
H6002
“Amalek”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 39× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 36:12
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Amalek = "dweller in a valley"
- son of Eliphaz by his concubine Timnah, grandson of Esau, and progenitor of a tribe of people in southern Canaan
- descendants of Amalek
- וַיַּצֵּ֣ל nâtsal H5337 “and · to rescue” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דָּוִ֔ד Dâvid H1732 “David” Noun, Proper
- אֵ֛ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- לָקְח֖וּ lâqach H3947 “to take” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- עֲמָלֵ֑ק ʻĂmâlêq H6002 “Amalek” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- שְׁתֵּ֥י shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
- נָשָׁ֖יו ʼishshâh H802 “women · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הִצִּ֥יל nâtsal H5337 “to rescue” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דָּוִֽד Dâvid H1732 “David” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עֲמָלֵ֑ק Amalek H6002 occurs in 37 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- וַיַּצֵּ֣ל Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
- לָקְח֖וּ Qal · Perfect
- הִצִּ֥יל Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to 1 Samuel 30:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 14:16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ἀποαἱρέω δαυίδ πᾶς ὅς λαμβάνω ὁ αμαληκίτης καί ἀμφότεροι ὁ γυνή αὐτός ἐκαἱρέω
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued both his wives.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וְשֵׁיזִיב דָוִד יַת כָּל דִשְׁבוֹ עֲמַלְקָאֵי וְיַת תַּרְתֵּין נְשׁוֹהִי שֵׁיזִיב דָוִד:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻĂmâlêq (“Amalek”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Amalek” (ʻĂmâlêq) shape what this verse is saying?
- Genesis 36:12 shares the word «Amalek» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to rescue” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וַיַּצֵּ֣ל» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “to rescue” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 30:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.